MUSKEGON TOWNSHIP, MI – A Muskegon Township woman, severely assaulted allegedly by her husband Saturday, fled her home and was picked up by a passerby who helped her after she had been strangled and beaten, police said.

Authorities this week were going to request that the alleged offender be charged by the Muskegon County Prosecutor’s Office with strangulation and other domestic violence charges.

The incident was reported around 11 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 14, after a passerby picked up the injured woman who had fled her home in the 100 block of River Road.

The passerby drove her to Meijer on Holton Road where she called police.

Police said the alleged assault started after the victim picked up her husband from the bar around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday.

The victim told police her husband was intoxicated when she picked him up and wanted her to go to the bar with him. She advised she was tired after working until 1 a.m. and he became enraged, police said.

The two started to argue and then a physical assault began, police said.

“The offender pushed the victim down and began striking her. The offender continued to assault and threaten the victim with taking her child away. The offender then grabbed the victim by the throat and advised her several times that he was going to kill her,” police said in a written statement.

He also forced her to have sex with him, police said. The victim continued to fight and tried to get the offender to stop, police said.

The alleged offender stopped assaulting the woman to go to the store “to get some food,” police said.

He made the woman promise she wouldn’t leave the home, but she left the house and ran down the road on foot where the passerby picked her up.

The victim was treated at a local hospital for her injuries, which included bruises to her face and arms, a sprained left hand and soft tissue damage to her neck.

“Officers located the offender at the home on River Road cooking breakfast,” police said.

After questioning, police arrested the man and lodged him in the Muskegon County Jail on domestic assault.